Glorious Sunset

This is a statement first and a wall color second. Vista Paint lists it as Glorious Sunset (AC111).

At chroma 68.0 it will not sit quietly next to another strong color. Used across a whole room it needs restraint in the decor - furniture and textiles that stay quiet so the wall can carry the color.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. 39.0 on the light-reflectance scale is unremarkable on its own; the chroma is what actually drives how this color behaves.

Depending on the bulb, this can genuinely read as orange or as red - it sits right on the border between the two, only 11° apart. Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Wood tones next to this read darker and richer than they do against a paler wall; it is one of the more dependable effects of putting a light-absorbing color next to anything reflective. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 39.0, 62 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Benjamin Moore White Satin keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 37.5 LRV points from this one). A flatter finish keeps this much color from creating harsh reflections.

No other brand has a color within delta-E 2 of this one - a genuinely uncommon shade.

It is lighter than 39 percent of the Vista Paint range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 540 colors measure within a point of 39.0 - so most brands will have something close. Among oranges it is one of the strongest: only 6 percent of them carry more colour. Vista Paint lists it in the K codes, alongside 1,318 other colors.